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Community mental health treatment centers could be overwhelmed in the coming years by veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, one in four of whom are expected to eventually need mental health treatment of some sort, Sen. Chris Coons … Continue reading →

The Delaware Air National Guard will add a C-130 to its fleet of eight, and eight additional personnel, during the last quarter of the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, the Air Force announced this past week. The summer 2014 … Continue reading →

Staff sergeants, technical sergeants and master sergeants with 15-19 years of service and currently in selected overmanned career fields may be eligible for early retirements this fiscal year, the Air Force announced today. The application window for these “15-year retirements” under … Continue reading →

The search has begun for the next leader of the Pentagon-sponsored group that promotes cooperation between Reserve Component service members and their civilian employers and helps resolve conflicts arising from employees’ military commitments. The state chair of Employer Support of the … Continue reading →

I’ve done some crazy things, but leaping out of a perfectly good airplane was not one of them. Fifty-two years ago, an Air Force captain jumped out of a perfectly good balloon – from an altitude of 19 miles. Joe … Continue reading →

A group of prisoners who’ve served their country recently presented donations totaling $4,500 to four agencies and organizations that provide services to veterans living in the Sussex community. The Incarcerated Veterans Group at Sussex Correctional Institution in Georgetown made the … Continue reading →

Two Wilmington natives, both soldiers, are competing in this week’s Wounded Warrior Games in Colorado Springs, Colo.: 1st Lt. Lacy Hamilton and Cpl. Perry Price III. The games pit wounded, ill and injured service members from the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines and … Continue reading →

Former Air Force chief of staff Gen. Norton Schwartz decided in 2008 that all airmen would wear their dress blue uniforms on Mondays – a nod to the everyday wearing of blues that had been an Air Force standard for … Continue reading →

With the passing of two Delaware leaders, former Delaware National Guard Adjutant General George Kenneth Hastings and former State Representative John McKay, Gov. Jack Markell has ordered the American and Delaware flags at state buildings and facilities be flown at … Continue reading →

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It’s all things military in Delaware: Dover AFB, the Army and Air National Guard and all veterans' issues - particularly VA health care and employer compliance with the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act. Questions, concerns or story tips? Contact me at bmcmichael@delawareonline.com or 302-324-2812.

About the author

Bill McMichael came to The News Journal in 2012 after 12 years with Gannett’s Military Times newspaper family; he has covered the military, from the Pentagon to ships at sea, for more than two decades. He's written about the Navy’s Tailhook scandal; racial integration of the military; the punishment of a whistle-blowing Navy SEAL; naval operations at the outset of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq; sex trafficking outside U.S. bases in South Korea; medical malpractice; and military law.